Halter-hitch



(.No Model.)

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HALTER' BITCH.

No. 504,650. Patented Sept. 5, 1893.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

RICHARD H. BAGOT, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

HALTER-HITCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 504,650, dated September 5, 1893.

Application filed February l, 1893. Serial No. 460,573. (No model.)

T0 all whom it int/ay concern.-

Be it known that I, RICHARD H. BACOT, of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented a new and Improved Halter-Hitch, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in halter hitches, or to hitching straps having devices thereon, which enable them to be secured without the necessity oi' tying a knot.

The object of my invention is to produce an extremely simple attachment for hitching straps, which will enable the straps to be quickly secured and which cannot be unfastened except by turning the free end of the strap into a peculiar position, and accidental releasing is thus guarded against.

To this end my invention consists in they particular construction and arrangement of parts as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the irnprovement. Fig. 2 is a detail plan of the same with the two parts of the device secured together; and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section on line 3-8, Fig. 2.

On the strap 10 is a sliding sleeve 11, which ts the strap quite snugly and which is curved somewhat so as not to slide too easily on the strap, and on one side of this sleeve, preferably the convex side and about its center, is a projection 12, which is cut under at the ends and sides to form a headed stud or button with which the loop engages, as described below; and on the sleeve near one end and opposite the button, is a projecting tongue 13, which is also cut under to receive the engaging loop, as shown clearly in Figs. 2 and 3. On the free end of the strap is a link 14 formed of metal, which is slotted transversely, as shown at 15 to facilitate its attachment to the strap, and the central portion of the link is formed into a projecting loop 16, the slot 17 of which extends in a direction parallel with the length of the strap. When the free end of the strap is to be secured to the sleeve, the loop 16 is placed at right angles to the sleeve 11, so that the slot 17 will receive the button 12 on the sleeve and the link 14 is then turned in a direction parallel with the sleeve, as shown clearly in Fig. 2, and the sides of the loop 16 are thus held beneath the ends of the button 12 while the free end of the loop is held beneath the tongue 13 and the parts 14 and 11 are thus securely locked together.

It will be observed that the above construction enables the two parts of a strap or the two adjacent portions of any flexible article to be conveniently fastened together.

The hitching device described is adapted to be secured near the free end of the strap 10, the other end of the strap being secured to a halter or bridle in the usual way. To make the strap fast, the free end is passed around a post, or other object, the loop 16 is placed in engagementwith the stud or button 12 as above described, and when a strain is placed on the strap, the sleeve 11 slides downward to the post and the strap is held firmly in place.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- As an improved article of manufacture a halter hitch, consisting of a strap, a link secured to the free end of the strap and provided with a projecting loop, and a sleeve fitting loosely on the strap and provided with a headed stud or button at or about its center and with an undercut projection or tongue at one end opposite the stud or button, as set forth.

RICHARD H. BACOT.

Witnesses:

1V. A. STEAIT, JAMES H. TOMB. 

